[calvinmorrison]

outside of instiutions of granduer and programming greats like bell labs, eriksson, and so forth, no, programming has been TERRIBLE and has gotten a lot better.

Version control, documentation, language capabilities are all better than they were 10 or 20 years ago

Fewer people are writing horrible applications in VBx and Access, more people are writing things with good fundementals.

So - in many ways it's easier than ever to write "good" software.